Astronomers anticipate 100 billion Earth-like planets
03 April 2013 13:32
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The planet formerly known as Pluto now just plutoid!
Pluto and Charon
Charon
After weeks of online ballot casting by people around the world, the poll asking the public to name two of Pluto's moons — currently called P4 and P5 — ended Monday.
As of 12 p.m. (1700 GMT) Feb. 25, the polls closed with a total of 450,324 total votes cast since Feb. 11 with 'Vulcan,' a Pluto moon name proposed by Star Trek's William Shatner, is the clear winner.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0226/Vulcan-and-Cerberus-are-favorite-names-for-Pluto-s-moons
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First,
the planet Pluto was demoted and re-classified as a dwarf planet.
I
don’t know whether this made dwarves happy or mad.
But
hold the phone---the cell phone!
Now
Pluto is being called a plutoid.
And
I just read today that Pluto…or rather Plutoid
the Dwarf Planet…
Has
ice water!
And
lo and behold, its core is an iron-nickel alloy!
And
Pluto’s round!
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“No longer a planet, Pluto
is just a member of the Kuiper Belt; a collection of icy objects that extend
out past the orbit of Neptune. If you brought Pluto into the inner Solar
System, it would start to act like a comet – blasting out gas and particles
from the solar wind. It’s a good thing Pluto is in the cold, dark outer Solar
System, far away from the Sun.”
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/13875/what-is-pluto-made-up-of/#ixzz2M3gpDq13
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/13875/what-is-pluto-made-up-of/#ixzz2M3gpDq13
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Captain Kirk has taken time from his space travel and work as a commercial for Priceline to tell us
that one of Pluto’s moons should be named Vulcan.
I don’t know if this made Spock happy or sad.
Sure, name it Vulcan…or Cerberus…or Pluto’s Son…
But call Pluto a planet again!
IT’S ABOUT
RENEWABLE RESOURCES!
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